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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 4:06 pm 
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Hi All,

Thought I'd ask a for a few ideas before I get up to my elbows in petrol... On the weekend (after doing about 200km after filling up both the tanks) the fuel gauge was showing empty. The LHS tank was nearly completely empty (checked with a dipstick) and the RHS was nearly full.

After leaving it for a couple of hours at the Minikingdom show it levelled out slightly, and then I filled up on the way home and the LHS tank took 14L and the RHS tank took 6L. The breathers all look OK, my thought is possibly the pickup on the bottom of the RHS tank is getting blocked. Any other ideas?

This afternoon after sitting for 24 hours the tanks are level.

Cheers, Tim

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 4:53 pm 
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:41 pm 
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Breather pipe blocked. Stick a 1.5mm drill into it at top of tank and twiddle with your fingers.
Happened to mine, same symptoms. [edit] It got blocked when I cleaned out the RH tank and used rust converter in it.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:59 pm 
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Thanks guys

All the pipes and hoses in the boot are less than 12 months old.

I’ll double check the breather is clear tomorrow

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:41 am 
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Well the breather on the top of the tank was a bit restricted with dirt but not blocked. I opened it up with a drill bit as suggested.

The pickup in the bottom of the tank looks pretty clear
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I’ll see if that helps, if not I’ll check out the fuel lines

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:40 am 
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They should level out reasonably quickly. I often only fill one tank and though I’ve never timed it I’d say it levels out within 5-10mins.

Do you have the metal interconnect pipe or just rubber hose? Dodgy hose perhaps??


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 12:17 pm 
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It's got the metal link pipe and short connecting pieces similar to what the factory used.

I would imagine during normal driving each tank would be drained evenly, there wouldn't be a preference for either tank. There also shouldn't be a problem with vented/non-vented fuel caps if the tanks are vented. It's strange I only noticed it now after 6 months + of the extra tank being installed.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 12:39 pm 
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Hi Tim, I had the same problem and it turned out the breather for second tank was blocked.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:28 am 
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If the tank filter was blocked, how on earth would you clean/ remove it?

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:06 am 
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Stick a drill up it.
But on LH one you may be able to reach it through the fuel gauge sender hole.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:48 pm 
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Simple test.
Take both fuel caps off and see if fuel level equalises quickly.
If it does then the interconnecting pipe, tank filters and hoses are OK.
Problem is with breather tubes or tank caps.
Just remember the tank vent pipes need to go to the opposite side of the car and should be attached to the underside of the parcel shelf and exit through the boot floor.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 10:43 pm 
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If you want to de-rust your tanks, I used this stuff on my XJ6 and it works like a charm:

http://www.kbs-coatings.com.au/product/rustblast/

Drying the insides quickly using heat gun/compressed air/hot sunshine will avoid any flash rust recurring.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 6:24 pm 
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Thanks all for the help

I filled the car up yesterday and noticed they still weren't even. This afternoon I removed the breather line from the top of the RHS and couldn't blow through it. There was a bit of a kink in the breather, but it's all sorted now!

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